High Press

 A Coaching Playbook Featured Session

Practice Type: Tactical Practice

Learning Objective: Pressing Triggers

Session Outcome: Players recognise the cues to initiate pressure as a team.

Layout

• Age: U13s - Adults

• Number of players: 12 - 16

• Duration: 12 - 25 mins 

• Equipment: Balls, Goal, Cones 

• Organisation: Half-pitch

• Description: 7 Vs 6 (1-4-2 Vs 3-3)

Session Plan

• Coaching Points: Recognise poor touches, react to backwards passes, press on slow passes, work together and recover quickly if beaten

• Coaching challenge: Force play wide

• Common Error: Players press individually

• Progressions: Add an extra defender 

• Regression: Reduce the playing area

• Coach Intervention Questions: Who is pressing with you? What triggered your press?

Tactics Board Breakdown 

Real World Examples